OK folks, that is my blog for this week. I was about to work out something which brought together Garry Kitchin’s intriguing Tweet implying that socialism was a better idea than the Citizens’ Income, the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds’s failure to use the CI principle fully, Archbishop Sentamu’s Presidency of the YMCA, who employ workfare slaves, whilst claiming that he deplores workfare, and a book written by Sam Brittan and Steve Webb in 1990 “Beyond the Welfare State: an Examination of Basic Incomes in a Market Economy”. As it says on the tin, it sets out the case for a C or BI from a market perspective. But there goes another dog which should be barking at Iain Duncan Smith, but isn’t (Apologies if he has) .

But all this will have to wait, as will my misgivings about the approach of some of the new intake of Green Party members to population.

One caveat though. The article linked makes no mention of the relevance of the Citizens, or basic Income to ecological issues. Pity, but maybe my bluff is about to be called. I have always claimed that the citizens’ Income will facilitate sustainable atitudes even if that is not its purpose.

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Clive Lord joined the embryonic Green Party in March 1973, 5 months after its formation. Now 83, he is the longest serving member still active, and has recently published his book 'Citizens' Income and Green Economics'. He was major contributor to the Party's first ' Manifesto for a Sustainable Society', drafting the section outlining the crucial link between social justice and preserving the planet's life support systems, He has consistently advocated the Citizens' Basic Income as having a key role, until someone thinks of a better idea (44 years and still waiting).